Toccoa city officials are continuing to watch the gas fund closely as the budget year continues. Monday, gas rates and the budget were one of the topics discussed by Toccoa City Commissioners during a 4 ½ hour work session. During the work session, Toccoa City Commissioner Terry Carter asked City Manager Mike Jackson how...
Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said he supports a resolution passed by the National Sheriffs’ Association on the topic of gun control. Shirley said he was in Washington, D.C. last week as the association presented the resolution. “Sheriffs strongly support our citizens’ protected rights to bear arms under the Second Amendment and the National...
By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Bringing students and teachers into 21st Century education via social media and virtual learning is the goal of the Franklin County School Board. At the Franklin County Chamber and Rotary luncheon last Tuesday, School Superintendent Dr. Ruth Odell outlined the main objectives of the school board for the...
Stephens County High School has announced a make-up date for the basketball game with Lumpkin County. Stephens County will now host Lumpkin County on Thursday at the Currahee Arena. The girls’ game will tip off at 6 p.m. with the boys’ game to follow. The game between Stephens and Lumpkin counties will be the...
Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell takes the oath of office as chief. The new chief, along with the rest of the Toccoa Police Department, took the oath as a unit Friday afternoon in the commission meeting room at Toccoa City Hall. Jarrell said he felt it was important that the whole department take the...
A recent training session for members of the Toccoa Police Department focuses on school safety. Back on January 26, the eight members of the police department’s Special Operations Response Team, or SORT Team, held a training session at Toccoa Elementary School. Toccoa Police Department Detective Shannon Westbrook heads up the SORT Team. He said...
A last-second shot would not fall and the Stephens County Lady Indians lost a heart-breaker Friday to the Madison County Lady Red Raiders 51-50. Madison County’s girls scored the first 13 points of the game, but the Lady Indians scratched their way back and led at the half 26-25 following a three-point shot by...
By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia New Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White said the office he inherited is filled with years of backlogged cases. White attended the Franklin County Board of Commissioners work session Tuesday to ask them for extra funding to supplement the salary of his new Chief Assistant District Attorney....
A Franklin County woman is the winner of a teaching award at North Georgia Technical College. Math Instructor Leslie McFarlin of Carnesville is North Georgia Tech’s winner of this year’s Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Education. Three other instructors were also nominated for this 2013 award including Chris Bladowski of Toccoa in...
The Georgia Department of Transportation will perform scheduled road work in a number of northeast Georgia counties this week. According to the DOT, work will take place in Franklin and Banks counties. In Franklin County, the DOT says crews will hand sweep State Routes 8 and 211, while another crew inspects drainage pipes on...
